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Conestoga Traction Network. Conestoga Traction, later Conestoga Transportation Company, was a classic American regional interurban trolley that operated seven routes 1899 to 1946 radiating spoke-like from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to numerous neighboring farm villages and towns.
George T. Darany (born March 12, 1956) is a retired Democratic politician from Michigan, who served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. [1]Darany is currently the City Clerk in the City of Dearborn, Michigan, is a former member of Dearborn City Council, was the founder and owner of a small business, Classic Trolley Company from 1986–2006, and has worked as a realtor ...
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.
The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, interurbans, trolleybuses and locomotives. It operated from 1887 to 1974 and was based in St. Louis , Missouri.
In his 2017 article The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs, Masahiro Morioka considers the dropping of atomic bombs as an example of the trolley problem and points out that there are five "problems of the trolley problem", namely, 1) rarity, 2) inevitability, 3) safety zone, 4) possibility of becoming a victim, and 5) the lack of ...
Ottawa Car Company - Ottawa, Ontario, 1891–1948 [2] Preston Car Company - Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario ), 1908–1921, bought by Brill [ 2 ] Toronto Railway Company - Toronto , Ontario , 1891–1920, wooden cars for mostly in-house use only, but built some cars for Mexico and Western Canadian operators by subsidiary Convertible ...
The Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) is a streetcar design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful domestically, and after World War II it was licensed for use elsewhere in the world where PCC based cars were made.
The Gomaco Trolley Company is a manufacturer of vintage-style streetcars (alternatively called trolleys in the US, or trams in much of the world), located in Ida Grove, Iowa, United States. The company has supplied replica-vintage streetcars to several transit systems in the US, and has also restored and rebuilt authentic vintage streetcars for ...